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  • Titshaw et al. v. Geer et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Ryan Peacock, (Hotchkiss Hoffecker Peacock, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Barclay Brown, Austin Atkinson, Sarah Meghan Pittman, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Christine Lupo Mast, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Linley Jones, Angela Marie Forstie, (Linley Jones, PC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G1124

    Court clarifies application of statute of limitations for breach-of-contract claims in a legal malpractice dispute

  • The State v. Shropshire

    Publication Date: 2024-01-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ruth M. Pawlak, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Vance Patterson, (The Law Office of Brian V. Patterson, LLC), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0310

    Court clarifies legal standards for merger analysis in cases involving separate charges of child molestation and aggravated child molestation

  • Sumter County et al. v. Morris et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-16
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raleigh Willis Rollins, H. Thomas Shaw, (Alexander & Vann, LLP), Thomasville, Hayden Hooks Hooks, (Arnold & Hooks LLC), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph F. Simpson, (Simpson Mediation Services), Cobb, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0169

    Court clarifies county's obligation in road maintenance, emphasizing the need for county authority to accept the dedication of a road for public use before the county is obligated to maintain it

  • Coe et al. v. Proskauer Rose, LLP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice | Tax
    Industry: Accounting | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Jeven Robinson Sloan, (Loewinsohn Deary Simon Ray LLP), Dallas, Harry W. MacDougald, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & Deloach, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Mark G. Trigg, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Shari Lynn Klevens, (Dentons US LLP), Washington, David M. Lederkramer, (Proskauer Rose), New York Lisa S. Blatt, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, for appellee; Johannes S. Kingma, Jeffrey Charles Hoffmeyer, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1250

    Material Factual Dispute Existed as to When Clients Learned Law Firm Was Not Independent of Client's Accounting Firm